Re: [CR] len preheim/toga/addendum

(Example: Events:Eroica)

To: jswan@optonline.net
Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 16:06:39 -0400
Subject: Re: [CR] len preheim/toga/addendum
From: "Richard M Sachs" <richardsachs@juno.com>


snipped from this a.m.:
> Jamie Swan wrote: Green and yellow was the team colors for the elite Tempo/Toga Thunderbolts, sponsored buy Lenny Prehiem, part owner of Toga Bike Shop in Manhattan. Many of the team bikes were made by Richard Sachs. Lenny sold a lot of Richie's bikes back then.

The Toga squad was the premiere team in the metropolitan N.Y.C. area.Lenny would draft the top 6 to 10 riders and ruled over them with an iron fist. His most famous charge was Nelson "T-Bah" Vails, who went from being a N.Y.C. bike messenger to winning a silver medal in the sprints at the '84 Olympics in L.A. Buy me a beer and I'll tell you a few stories about him, including the time I rode a (miss) matched sprint against him. T-Bah used to wear his hair in corn-rows with green and yellow beads braided in. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

****lenny was also george hincapie's first <real> sponsor.
          e-RICHIE
          chester, ct